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I went on an adventure this evening!
well… “adventure”.

I went to pick something up from a random person I hadn’t met before (uh oh.. this sounds like something shady! …It wasn’t a drug deal. I repeat: IT WAS NOT A DRUG DEAL.)

;)
so anyways, I made myself a little map on a shred of paper (literally, a ’shred’. I don’t know why I do those things. I have TONS of little ‘purse-sized’ booklets…) and wrote down the number of the bus I was going to take, and the address of the house.

So I get there, no problem. I’m on time. I can casually stroll down the street. Looking at houses. Enjoy the day.
I arrive at the house. Not EXACTLY what I was picturing, but whatever. An old man answers the door.
…I can’t remember if he was wearing a shirt or not. hmm… yes. I think he was wearing a sleeve-less shirt…
me: Hi. Is Chantele there?
him: who?
me: um… Chantele…?
him: no. no one hear by that name…
me: oh.
[awkward pause]
him: What’s she look like?
me: uh…I don’t know… I haven’t met her before.
him: okay…
me: um… maybe I’m at the wrong house.
him: definitely. no one here by that name.
me: anything close? Like with a C H?
him: no.
me: hmm, I could’ve sworn this was the address she gave me.
him: maybe someone’s playing a trick on you.
me: …yeah… I know she’s recently had a baby. Have any of your neighbours had a baby recently?
him: hmm yeah.. wait a second.
[he goes back inside and I hear him asking someone inside what the name of the neighbour is.]

Turns out, the neighbour has a baby and her name starts with a C H sound!
success!

so I thank him, and head next door.
I don’t think it’s evident from my retelling of the conversation, but the guy was really friendly. Like, he totally didn’t mind standing outside and trying to get some random girl headed in the right direction.

So I go next door, and ring the doorbell and the same thing happened.
very friendly women answered the door.
wrong house.
no idea who I’m looking for.

so I left and was particularly disappointed that I couldn’t find the person. (I never got her phone number.)
And I was confused as to how the person could give me the wrong address to her house!
I mean, normally I would think that I had written down the wrong address, but clearly, I had copied the address directly from the computer screen. I wasn’t multi-tasking or anything at the time, so there’s no reason I should write the wrong address.

Anyways, thankfully I remembered that I could probably access the internet with my phone. (yay!!) so I logged into my email account and re-read the email she had sent me.

you guessed it. I wrote down the wrong house number. I wrote 117 instead of 177.
big difference.
I don’t know how I did that!

So then I went to the right house and picked up what I went to get.
the end.

oh and another random story from tonight:

I went to the Subway Restaurant near my place and as I entered, some random guy was exiting the restaurant with a bottle of Coke.
As I approached the counter the worker says to me: ‘So that guy, (referring to the guy who just left) he’s been in here for two hours!’ (The worker pointed to a table with a bag on the chair and a highlighted novel on the table)
‘He just came in and sat down. And then he randomly got up, grabbed a bottle of Coke and slipped it under his shirt and left! I don’t know what to do!‘

SO odd!
Why would the guy steal a bottle of Coke, but leave all his stuff in the store?
And it’s not like the store is large or busy either! When I walked in, I was the only customer in the place!
We looked outside and he was standing across the street with the bottle.

How bold of the guy! Considering the police station was right across the intersection!

I felt bad for the subway worker. I don’t know what I’d do in that situation. The guy was the only person working there, so he couldn’t just leave the place and walk across the street to the police. …and would they care? I mean, they would care, but would they react right away, or would they send one of their patrol cars on it, and end up responding in a couple hours?

I was intrigued by the fact that the subway worker didn’t know what to do about the random guy. I mean, the worker could definitely ‘take’ the random guy, if he wanted to.
although… you never know with some people…

one of the cool things about working “in the heart of downtown” is that I see tourists all the time (today there was a cute group taking pictures of the stars on the “walk of fame” (or whatever they call it).
Personally, I think there’s some funny business going around, because I’m 90% sure that Jim Carrey has two stars. Which shouldn’t happen right? …unless they’re trying to make the “walk” look longer than it actually is.

anyways, I had a minor celebrity sighting today at lunch!
minor in that I saw her for all of 5 seconds. And also minor because anyone who doesn’t watch CFTO news would probably not know who she is.
But here’s a pic anyway:

It’s Andria Case!

She was talking into her hands-free headset and trying to get into the Princess of Wales Theatre.
The people she walked pass were whispering ’she from tv? …the news… Andria..?’

I like her. She’s smiley on the news. like she really enjoys it.

A couple of my co-workers have had minor celebrity sightings.
One of them saw David Suzuki a couple months ago. I’m not a fan of him….
Another saw Rick Mercer!!! He’s HILARIOUS!

but anyways,
check out this cool site by Joe the Dreamer! I like how he describes himself as “Dreamer, Designer, Illustrator, Animator, Filmmaker, Photographer, Musician.”

also, Miranda July has updated her ‘writing on top of the fridge’ website! fun!!

okay. I’m ready.

I’ll admit it. ..finally.
*big breath*

I like that song by Fergie. “Big girls don’t cry”

*exhale*I feels good to get that off my chest..

(hahaha)

but in all seriousness, I actually do like that song. …have since the first time I heard it. I’m not a fan of any of her other songs, but I like that one… even after the radio stations played it 5 million times a day…

anyways,

I’m listening to the latest Coldplay single right now: “Viva la Vida”.
Now, is it just me, or does this song/album title remind anyone else of Ricky Martin?
I haven’t heard anyone else bring up the similarity… and I’m really surprised. it’s the first thing I thought about!

so, I’m excited! - a quick google search led me to the Northwest Vista College and a Braille Transcription course! yayyyy! I’m not quite sure why I didn’t find this last time I checked, but maybe I was looking for a free course within Canada…
Anyways, I still need to check out the pricing and some other things, but it’s exciting that this exists! wheee!
[edit: turns out, the course costs thousands of dollars. …forget that!]

this made me laugh this morning:

It’s a bunch of examples of the ‘unacceptable’ passport photos. (From Passport Canada) Does anyone else find this hilarious?!
Hehe, I can’t imagine trying to submit the first picture! “That’s really what I look like… I’m a ghost…”

And imagine working at a passport office and having to reject the picture with the girl with her mouth open! Brutal!

My old passport photo is FANTASTIC. I’m beaming AND my head is crooked.
my new one is possibly the worst picture I have ever taken.

I’m going to take a trip to the passport office at lunch today. it should be fun.

There was a delay on the subway this morning so I spent the extra time making a SYTYCD playlist on my iPod!
So far it includes:

My Philosophy by Inner
Lamentation by Lean Andreone
Apologize (Remix) by OneRepublic
Dreaming with a Broken Heart by John Mayer
Hometown Glory by Adele
Dancing by Elisa
Dance, dance by Fall Out Boy
Parameters by Ani DiFranco

One of my coworkers just bought a new Mactop –haha, a new name for a Mac laptop! — and got an 8GB iPod Touch for free!
She brought it in to work today so I could play with it. …it’s fun!
though, it’s not too much fun if there isn’t a connection to the internet. ( and that’s why I’m not going to get one.)
I listened to the new Coldplay album on her Touch, and now I can’t get those violins out of my head.
(mmm sweet violins…)

some stranger today complimented me on my peripheral vision. (hah!) I held the door open for him.
it was a nice exchange.

I really like this Ani DiFranco ’song’ “Parameters”. it’s fierce.
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so I just had an ‘interesting’ conversation with someone from a particular national non-profit for the blind and visually impaired. (which shall remain nameless.)

They offer a course in learning how to transcribe Braille. It’s a big thing, like a full year-long course, lots of homework, and you have to commit to transcribing Braille for them for at least 5 years after you finish the course.

But because I think Braille is the coolest thing ever, I decided to go for it. So I filled out an application and signed up for an info session.

During this whole process though, I feel like my contact at the organization has been trying to get me to back out. Saying things like, “we don’t recommend it for people who work full-time” and “the correspondence course is intended only for people who live outside of the city.”

Finally today, she told me point blank that there was no way they were going to let me do the course.

how disappointing!
I kind of wish they had just told me from the get-go, instead of just being discouraging and trying to get me to drop it…

As far as I can tell, this is the only course in Canada that trains people to write Braille. …so I’m sad.

(boo)

I watched Sister Act 2 last night after coming home from Mississauga. It probably wasn’t the best way to spend my time at 12:30am, but hey - it was enjoyable. Watching it now I recognize a bunch of the kids from other shows from the 80s and 90s.. “hey! That’s Theo’s girlfriend for a couple of episodes of the Cosby Show!

So this weekend has been paper-filled. I decided to make some matchbook notepads (oh dear… why is everything I do covertly related to smoking?). They’re small and not filled with much paper, so I’m not sure how useful they will be, but they were fun to make.
it made me realize how useful it would be to have one of those contraptions that slice paper. (rather than the old ‘x-acto knife and cutting board.)

I used five different mosaics, but i think this is my favourite. mostly because I really like that brown card. …I need to make another one so I can have it to look at.

Right now I’m listening to the (freshly downloaded) song “My Philosophy” by Inner. (as heard in this SYTYCD video) i like it. it’s odd. but in a fun way. “I want to be myself, but not all by myself.”

This morning I picked up a registration form for an Art Show that the church I’m going to is having.

oh wait, one topic at a time…
The inside of the matchbook notepads looks something like this:

And a couple of the other mosaics:
Urban Words cards:

and Stars:

… I made a lot.

so this Art Show is to show pieces but also to sell them… if you want. They’re asking that part of the proceeds go to a Ministry they’re doing overseas.
I’m thinking about putting my latest painting in the show. but I’d have to be there to sit with it all weekend. It’s also a craft show, so I could potentially take some KPD stuff as well. Thankfully, it’s in September, so I have a while to decide.

it’s raining cats and dogs outside. It feels like the perfect way to end off a lazy Sunday afternoon.
There’s a guy across the street standing in the alcove of the art store waiting out the storm. I want to take a picture of him because he looks very ‘contemplative’…. but i don’t think I’m ready to become ‘that person’. (you know, the one who takes secret pictures of people and posts them online…) but hmm, maybe I already am…

but anyways,
this week I picked up a cd by Eric Hutchinson. It was an impulse buy, but I had high hopes because there was a guitar AND keyboard on the cd cover…
and it turns out.. I like the cd a lot! SCORE!
Here’s a vid of my favourite song by him, “Oh!”
I like the part when he claps and plays the piano at the same time…

At home this weekend I came across this little guy on my lawn:

he looked so content I couldn’t stop myself from taking a whole bunch of pics.

“gangsterism”

I just heard this word used on the CTV news. Gangsterism is a crime in Canada.

so my department at work is working with an organization in China and they gave us all these cool bookmarks!

shiney.

I just saw a link for Wordle on the How about Orange blog.

You copy/paste from text or type in your blog url and it spits out your blog in word format.
haha, ‘word’ not ‘Word’…. it’s a flash image.

anyways,
here’s mine!

hehe, it includes “yogurt”. yes!
I was trying to figure out what ’sn’ was… and then I realized it was ‘us’.

I’ve been bitten by the painting bug again!

I think it happened when I was at church last Sunday. The topic was Hebrews 12: 1-3
“Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus, the author and the finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. For consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners against Himself, lest you become weary and discouraged in your souls.” (NKJV)

I also had the song “We Fall Down” by Donnie McClurkin on my mind as I painted.
<>“We fall down, but we get up. For a saint is just a sinner who fell down, and got up.”

And this verse: Proverbs 24:16 “For though a righteous man falls seven times, he rises again”

So here’s the painting!

It’s on two canvases.

hmm but what to call it? …”The Race of the Righteous” ?

fun bonus: it matches my couch! eee!

oh.my.goodness it is CRAZY hot in my apartment!!

I don’t understand it! It’s been so manageable so far this summer. Just this past Wednesday I was telling someone that the temperature in my apartment has been pretty okay this summer!
…oh wait. I guess I shouldn’t have spoken those words aloud?

now I’m sitting here in a pool of my own sweat.
(ew)
my fan isn’t even helping!

well, today I spent some hours on Queen Street with Vanessa! It was lots of fun - I’m really appreciative that she came ALL the way down here to hang out!
(thanks Van!!)
AND, she brought me some fun cds to listen to! …and a book that I can’t wait to read!

Right now I’m listening to the Stars’ album “Do you trust your friends?”
I like the songs I’ve heard so far!

The blurb inside the cd cover is fun:
Do you trust your friends?
Would you let them redecorate your apartment, or do your homework for you? Would you let them buy your clothes or groceries? Would you leave them in charge of your kids? And if you did, what would they charge? Does one of them secretly think you wear too much blue, or eat too much yogurt? If you let them rearrange your house, would they just slap a new coat of paint on the wall, or would they gut the whole damn place and start again? If you made a pop record, and then gave it to them to make again, what would they do to it? These are the questions, the queries, the silly little thoughts that led to the recordings you just purchased. Thanks for that, by the way. All the people who steal this album off the internet may be fourteen dollars richer than you, but they don’t have the liner notes and- I’m not sure they can be trusted….

It continues, but I thought that first part was comical.
mmm yogurt!

But anyways, we checked out the newly opened Queen West Market. It was interesting. It’s a lot smaller than we thought it would be, but it was good. It seems like a really good opportunity for locals to sell their handmade goods on a regular basis. It’s open every weekend, so if you wanted to be in a craft show but there weren’t any coming up, you could potentially sell there!

Hopefully it’ll thrive.

Anyone remember that farm by my place in Mississauga that they were tearing down?
I took another pic of it last weekend:

It’s gone!
*tear.
so sad.